{"id":658626,"date":"2026-02-13T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658626"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:20:32","slug":"lufthansa-strike-why-pilots-and-flight-crew-walked-out-of-german-airline-fueling-800-flight-cancellations-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lufthansa-strike-why-pilots-and-flight-crew-walked-out-of-german-airline-fueling-800-flight-cancellations-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa strike: Why pilots and flight crew walked out of German airline, fueling 800 flight cancellations \u2014 Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa strike: Germany-based global airline operator, Lufthansa, is witnessing a major disruption in its flight operations with several flights cancelled after pilots and flight crews went on strike amid the airline&#8217;s efforts to cut costs, reported the news agency Reuters on Thursday, 12 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>A report from the news portal DW suggests that the strike comes as a result of nearly 4,800 pilots, who work for the passenger airline and the company&#8217;s freight transport arm, looking to pressure the company into paying higher contributions to their retirement benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa strike: Germany-based global airline operator, Lufthansa, is witnessing a major disruption in its flight operations with several flights cancelled after pilots and flight crews went on strike amid the airline&#8217;s efforts to cut costs, reported the news agency Reuters on Thursday, 12 February 2026. A report from the news portal DW suggests that the strike comes as a result of nearly 4,800 pilots, who work for the passenger airline and the company&#8217;s freight transport arm, looking to pressure the company into paying higher contributions to their retirement benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}